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Chapter 7

House of Blood

"Ya sure you're ready to do this?" I asked Colton stepping in front of the door to block his path from the office where his father would be waiting for him. "Because I'm handling this fine and they say we're polar opposites."

"Then I'll be brilliant at it," Colton assured me after literally lifting me up and putting me down out of the way. "Because you're not dealing with it well and you're only pretending to. But if you don't mind… I'd like to talk to him alone. Maybe you go and talk to your mom or something. If you're really so good at dealing with this then you'll be fine."

Leave it to a complete stranger to call me out on my panic. No way was I going and seeing Nina; I'd much rather sit outside the office where Eddie sat and wait for Colton to return with our answers.

"My point exactly," he told me with a half-hearted chuckled before taking a deep breath and walking into the room. I stood to listen in on their conversation, when suddenly two hands wrapped around my waist squeezing the air out of me.

"You came home," little Mollie, who apparently had been told of my identity, whispered. "I always knew you'd come home."

Unsure what to say, I just smiled and crouched down to meet the tiny girl in the eyes. "I never even knew I had a home to come to, but now I'm glad I do."

Mollie giggled before outstretching her hand, "Hi Eve. I'm Mollie. You're sister. It's nice to meet you."

Why are little kids so gosh darn cute? "Hi Mollie. I'm Eve your long lost sister and it's spectacular to meet you."

"Give her a break Molls," Claudia called exhaustion clear in her voice even from the other side of the house. "Come bother me if you're going to bother anyone."

"She's not bothering me," I told the girl, my sister, with honesty. "I'm just waiting for Colton… he's in talking with his dad."

Apparently, nobody had told Mollie the full story yet because her eyes grew wide, "Colton is Uncle Eddie's son! That's so cool!"

"Yeah, Mollie, it is. Now I need to talk to Eve so can you go and I don't know do anything but stay around here," Claudia requested and I wondered why she sounded so tired. Then I remembered she was a sophomore and understood: everyone's tired of life when they're 15.

Mollie was clearly pouting at being sent away, but she hugged me tightly before skipping off clearly not angry at all. Claudia gave me a look that said *follow me* and I was quickly led up into the attic (which if I remembered correctly was Nina and Fabian's room.) Plopping down on her, no correction, our parents bed Claudia began. "Just be careful with Mollie, okay."

"What do you mean?" It wasn't like I'd hurt her even if she wasn't my sister, my blood.

"She doesn't know that this," Claudia motioned to the notch in the wall shaped as an Eye of Horus sat. "Is more than a story. I'm not even sure if our parents even want to tell her. It changes the way you see the world. It changes you. And none of us want that to happen to Mollie, you understand?"

Of course I understood. I, myself, could already feel the change sparked by all I'd learned last night. I lived in a dark world, and Mollie, even at 10, was far too young to see that.

"I was about Mollie's age when I found out. 10 I think."

"Wait," hadn't Mollie said she was 10? "I thought Mollie was 10."

Claudia laughed, "Not for another four months or so, but you know how little kids are. Always rounding up. Nah she's just a little kid. You and I were both surprises, especially me because I came so soon after…" Claudia didn't have to finish for me to know that it brought her parents pain to have another child so soon after they lost me. "You're June 6, 2018 I'm April 19, 2019 so I'm what 10 months younger than you? Irish twins we are," she joked with an Irish accent and all. "Mollie's birthday is December 13, 2024 and the twins aren't due for another few weeks."

"Wait, twins?" What was I missing because Nina sure as heck didn't seem 9 months pregnant, especially not with twins!

Claudia waved her hand, but a smile crossed her face. "Amazing, right? I invented her whole wardrobe myself. Maternity clothes that makes you look skinnier than you are without a baby! I haven't come up with a name yet I'm thinking Slimers or maybe Twig…"

"You're really not exaggerating on the genius thing, are you," I noted sheer awe in my voice. I might be some sort of superhero, but we all knew which Rutter kid was really getting ahead in life.

"Nope. And I'm not kidding about the twin thing either. Mom would have told you but it was insane enough as it is I guess she didn't want to make it worse. But yeah, in a day's time you've gone from being an only child to one of five. What an insane world."

"Yeah. I guess it is…" My mind had wandered far from the attic when suddenly I heard Colton say my name. I went to go to him when an (apparently confused).

"Where the heck are you going!" she called down to me.

Stopping in my tracks I turned my brow scrunched in perplexion. "Did you not just here Colton call my name?"

"Nope," Claudia told me eyes wide and head shaking. "But like we said. You two are weird. So go deal with your freaky Egyptian stuff and just remember Mollie doesn't know. To her the Osirian and Chosen One are just the bedtime stories mom liked to tell."